Bookshelf: Hiking around the world

BOOKSHELF

• Author:Peter Potterfield, who has traveled to every continent, came up with a list of his 23 favorite treks in the world.

• Highlights: The book features maps, photographs, descriptions and practical information about routes, seasons, permits, supply points and transportation near each favorite hiking area.

• Recommendations for North America: The John Muir Trail in Southern California; the Grand Canyon in Arizona; Chesler Park and Buckskin Gulch in Utah; Maroon Bells Circuit in Colorado; the Wonderland Trail and the route from Diablo Lake to Lake Chelan in Washington; the White Mountain Traverse in New Hampshire; McGonagall Pass in Alaska; the West Coast Trail in British Columbia, Canada; and the Rockwall Trail in Canada's Yoho and Kootenay national parks.

• Other recommendations around the world: The Routeburn Track on New Zealand's South Island; the Fitz Roy Grand Tour in the Argentine Patagonia; the Kungsleden, in Lapland in Arctic Sweden; and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.